NEW YORK GANGSTERS

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 201, 26 August 1930, Page 7

NEW YORK GANGSTERS

Bombs Enough to Blow Up Broadway Found. MACHINE-GUNS AND PISTOLS. (Received 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 25. The biggest arsenal of gangsters' weapons ever seen in New York "was discovered when detectives trailed and detained a fashionable sedan car driven by the wife of a certain notorious criminal. There were bombs enough to destroy half Broadway, and what looked like harmless fountain pens were actually pistols discharging .22 calibre bullets. Hand grenades, steel Tests, machineguns, and other war material were also found. Three men were arrested but the car c-wner himself had sailed for Ireland recently. He has been arrested 23 times, five for murder. His total prison time served, however, has been one month. GANGLAND GRAFT. £85,000 WEEKLY IN CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, August 21

Documents in Jack Zuta's deposit box reveal that of an £55,000 turnover from one •week's gang activities, all but £15,000 •went to individual gangsters, politicians, policemen and saloonkeepers. A fortnight ago, after being suspected of engineering the assassination of *Jake" the "Tribune" reporter who allegedly practised racketeering in his spare time, Zuta himself was murdered by machine-gunners. He was business manager for the Moran gang, which handled mostly everything left over after "Scarface" Al. Caponc had taken his share. Over the week-end the District Attorney and gangland were searching feverishly for two trunks which were expected to contain a great treasure in first-hand information. Cancelled cheques in Zuta's box included one for £1100 to Municipal Judge Schulman, while there were several unpaid notes, signed by other judges and police officials, each of £100 or £200.